From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 5 8:44:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D387C37B8AB; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 08:44:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA64102; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 11:49:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 11:49:58 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Ertan Kucukoglu Cc: John Baldwin , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: crontab entries Message-ID: <20000305114958.D62310@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <200002291211.HAA02326@server.baldwin.cx> <38C2565E.69DFB6F5@ozlerplastik.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <38C2565E.69DFB6F5@ozlerplastik.com>; from ertank@ozlerplastik.com on Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 02:43:10PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 02:43:10PM +0200, Ertan Kucukoglu wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: > > > > Alright, your crontab looks fine. However, my question is: how do you know > > that periodic is running your scripts on Sunday? You said that your modem > > dials out at 1:59 on Sunday, well, that is probably due to one of the > > weekly scripts in /etc/periodic/weekly/ needing net access for some reason, > > or perhaps a one of the daily scripts in /etc/periodic/daily/ needing > > net access. > > Hello again, > > After a week I'm here again. I checked my crontab I put some 'ps ax' > jobs. And see that something that I'm not sure runs my 'ppp -ddial > -alias isp' command in a way in the periodic *daily* scripts. > > I put one cron job before periodic daily script and one after that. I > see that I'm connected after that periodic daily scripts run. I also > checked if some weekly scripts connects me but I see that their running > time is different, 3:30. > > Now, I'll check to find out which script is running my ppp, or making it > to run. My guess, 440.status-mailq The mailq(1) is going to do DNS lookups. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message